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John MOORE[1]

Male 1791 - 1870  (79 years)


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  • Name John MOORE  [2, 3] 
    Born 8 Oct 1791  Parrsboro, Kings Co., Nova Scotia Find all individuals with events at this location  [4, 5] 
    Gender Male 
    Died 13 Oct 1870  Bertie Twp, Welland Co. Ontario Find all individuals with events at this location  [6] 
    Buried Ridgeway Cemetery, Bertie Twp., Ontario Find all individuals with events at this location  [7] 
    Person ID I1454  Jay Moore Family Tree
    Last Modified 2 Aug 2020 

    Father Thomas MOORE, UEL
              b. 6 Jan 1755, Lower Rahway, New Jersey Find all individuals with events at this location
              d. 17 Sep 1834, Bertie Twp, Welland Co., Ontario Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 79 years) 
    Mother Esther THORP
              b. 1 Mar 1757, Bridgetown, New Jersey Find all individuals with events at this location
              d. 4 Feb 1845, Bertie Twp, Welland Co., Ontario Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 87 years) 
    Married 1770  [2] 
    Family ID F524  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Elizabeth B. FREEMAN
              b. 6 Jul 1800, Amherst, Cumberland Co., Nova Scotia Find all individuals with events at this location
              d. 4 Jun 1862, Ridgeway, Bertie Twp., Ontario Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 61 years) 
    Married 25 Jun 1818  District Gore, Ontario Find all individuals with events at this location  [2] 
    Children 
     1. Edward Freeman MOORE
              b. 2 Mar 1820, Bertie Twp, Welland Co. Ontario Find all individuals with events at this location
              d. 13 Jul 1903, Walsingham Twp, Ontario Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 83 years)
     2. Rebecca E. MOORE
              b. 30 Mar 1822, Bertie Twp., Ontario Find all individuals with events at this location
              d. 24 May 1907, Port Colborne, Ontario Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 85 years)
     3. Clementina MOORE
              b. 2 Aug 1824
              d. 1891  (Age 66 years)
     4. Joseph R. MOORE
              b. 1 Aug 1826, Bertie Twp, Welland Co., Ontario Find all individuals with events at this location
              d. Bef 1910, Illinois, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 83 years)
     5. James Jenks MOORE
              b. 7 Sep 1829, Bertie Twp., Ontario Find all individuals with events at this location
              d. 13 Dec 1910, Ridgeway, Bertie Twp., Ontario Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 81 years)
     6. Eliza Jane MOORE
              b. 23 Aug 1832, Bertie Twp., Ontario Find all individuals with events at this location
              d. 25 Nov 1926  (Age 94 years)
     7. Ezra Freeman MOORE
              b. 4 Jul 1837, Bertie Twp, Welland Co., Ontario Find all individuals with events at this location
              d. 25 Jan 1891, Ridgeway, Bertie Twp., Ontario Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 53 years)
    Last Modified 7 Mar 2014 
    Family ID F1  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • Land Petitions Index C-10827 Book I 1811-1816
      Reel C-103 Pg 289
      6 January 1816
      At a Council held at York on Saturday the 6th of January 1816 at the Council Chambers, read the following petitions:
      M219:
      John Moore Praying for land as a Settler
      The Petitioner having had a promise of 200 acres of land, prayed that he shall have a grant of the quantity.
      (RWS Note: very faint writing in the left margin is not decipherable)
      --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
      John Moore 1816 Bertie Twp
      AO Reel C-2198 (Roll 190 Bundle 10)

      #219

      To His Excellency Francis Gore Esquire
      Lieutenant Governor of the Province of Upper
      Canada
      In Council
      The Petition of John Moore of the
      Township of BertieYeoman

      Humbly Sheweth
      That your petitioner was born in Nova Scotia, is 24 years of age, has resided in this province 4 years, has taken the oath
      of Allegiance and has never received any Land or Order for Land from the Crown.
      That being desirous of settling and improving a vacant Lot of land of the Crown, he humbly prays Your Excellency would be pleased to grant him such quantity of the waste Lands of the Crown as to Your Excellency shall appear meet?, under the Usual regulations with which Your Petitioner is prepared to comply.
      And your Petitioner shall ever Pray.
      John Moore
      York 5 January 1816


      #219a (very poor image)
      Received Gen?? office 5 January 1816
      John Moore has paid into this office the interest? & surveying? for an 200 acres of Land o.c. of the state Under?? of 1802.

  • Sources 
    1. [S90] GEDCOM file from Robert Wayne Shewman, compiled by Robert Wayne Shewman.

    2. [S91] Moore - Carol Moore's (nee Lowry) research.

    3. [S93] Myers - Ancestors and Descendants of Lewis Ross Freeman, 707 (Reliability: 3).

    4. [S141] 1861 Census, BERTIE TWP, WELLAND CO. ONTARIO (Reliability: 3).

    5. [S142] FamilySearch.org, RECORDS SUBMITTED AFTER 1991 (Reliability: 3).
      Kings Co. now Cumberland Co.

    6. [S91] Moore - Carol Moore's (nee Lowry) research, FAMILY BIBLE (Reliability: 3).
      Age = 79 yrs 5 days

    7. [S101] Fort Erie Historical Museum, OLD RIDGEWAY MEMORIAL CEMETERY (Reliability: 3).
      Section A
      Stone No. 184
      In Memory of John Moore
      Born Oct. 8, 1801
      Died Oct. 11, 1880
      Aged 79 Years & 5 D's
      Note: stone is highly cracked so is almost impossible to read.